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MadHatter
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What's to say? My real name's Tom Yates; check my personal website for a touch more detail, if you want to. I've been a professional UNIX/network sysadmin since 1991, and currently sysadmin free software for a living through my own little company. I have been known to write for LWN.

For those kind enough to care, I take the masculine pronoun by preference. That's it.

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Do we need a 2013 Election?
Jan 12, 2013
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Merge the subdomain and subdomains tags
Jul 4, 2014
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Is it time for a canonical question/answer on non-hostname-aware protocols?
Oct 6, 2017
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What information should I include or obfuscate in my posts?
Sep 25, 2014
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Possible project/product spamming
Dec 5, 2013
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Extra word in help document
Aug 24, 2013
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Proposed change to Server Fault guidelines
Dec 5, 2014
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What do I do with a question that has become irrelevant?
Mar 1, 2016
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Many old questions getting additional proftpd/vsftpd tags
Jan 21, 2016
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About bad questions, is answering them a way to encourage them?
Feb 19, 2014
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How do I prevent colleagues from making fun of the length of my password?
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reverse the order of characters in a string
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What is a challenge password?
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Does drilling a hole into a hard drive suffice to make its data unrecoverable?
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What is "-bash: !": event not found"